| Term | Definition |
|---|
| research | Studious collecting of information from several resources aimed at the discovery and interpretation of new knowledge |
| topic | subject you choose to write about |
| thesis sentence | main idea you are making in your paper |
| references | authoritative sources of information |
| note taking | recording researched materials using only key nouns and verbs |
| paraphrasing | writing something in your own words |
| plagiarize | to copy someone's words exactly, without giving a citation |
| outline | list of phrases and sentences that show the shape and boundaries of the paper; method of organizing your main ideas by topic and subtopic |
| subtopic | smaller point of information that comes under the main theme |
| introduction | identifies the subject, gives background information, includes the main idea of your paper |
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